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Example sentences for: slips

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During the 1988 presidential campaign both candidates, reading from prepared notes, made interesting slips of the eye: Governor Dukakis spoke of equipping aircraft carriers with modern “musicians” [munitions], and Vice President Bush said: “I hope I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism.”
As Lysander Kemp reminded us in Mrs. Malaprop in Mexico [XV,4], other tongues have their slips, as well.
At the impressive marina, yachtsmen — many visiting from the Florida coast — park in slips beneath their townhouses.
He and your readers, if they appreciate the French language, will realize that slips of the tongue in the English language are laughably unfunny to the French who speak the only language in the world that lends itself so beautifully to what they call a contrèpeterie .
And, the next afternoon, Willis buys a fifth of Wild Turkey and surreptitiously slips it behind the bar of the blues joint to replace the one he'd swiped.